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Valerio Colapinto

3×3 · top 2.8% of 288,433 all-time · competing since September 2019 · 2019COLA01

Valerio Colapinto has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.02, set at Almost Flaminia Open 2024, puts him in the top 2.8% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 108th in Italy. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since September 2019, he has put 852 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 68% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.30 in September 2019 to 8.02, a 62% improvement. Valerio has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.8% of 288,433 all-time
8.02
signature single · Almost Flaminia Open 2024
852
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingItaly
3×38.0210.79
top 2.8%108 / 2,897
Skewb2.773.70
top 3.9%49 / 810
2×21.964.03
top 4.5%157 / 2,079
Megaminx1:03.971:12.70
top 12.1%69 / 551
Pyraminx5.018.36
top 13.2%261 / 1,417
4×443.3957.12
top 16.3%208 / 1,211
Square-114.9921.08
top 16.5%72 / 415
3×3 one-handed19.9422.27
top 20.4%189 / 896
Clock11.3614.46
top 31.8%166 / 419
5×52:13.57—
top 57.6%349 / 649
3×3 blindfolded5:26.12—
early days — 3 solves207 / 248

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Road to IC - Monterotondo 2019: 21.30Road to IC - Bologna 2019: 21.03Road to IC - Montecatini 2019: 16.70Italian Championship 2019: 18.76Bologna Winter Madness 2020: 12.67Bologna Summer Open 2021: 14.48Italian Championship 2021: 10.20Pesaro Open 2022: 9.92SPQR Open 2022: 11.03AOpen in Rome 2022: 8.72Italian Championship 2022: 10.04Parthenope Open 2023: 10.75Anzio Open 2023: 10.40Eretum IV: Don't Stop the Cubing Tonight 2023: 11.16Italian Championship 2023: 11.42Almost Flaminia Open 2024: 8.02Italian Open 2024: 8.86Rubik's Italian Championship 2024: 10.108.0221.307 Sep 20191 Nov 2024

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,031 people have one; it is 0.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.